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AT&T Starter Kit (2nd GEN)

First I will compliment the Avnet Team on the fantastic developer kit at a great price. Great Job! I work with a number of different kits including the Mangoh Red from Sierra. Each has its advantages and also its challenges.

Next I wanted help the adopters of this kit on how to get things going without beating your head against the wall like our team did. WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS

FIRST - Follow the Quick Start Card Step 1 - CREATE THE ACCOUNT and get the SIM activated. DO NOT PUT an inactive SIM in the KIT. It is important that you follow this step.

Next, the videos work as described if you do step 1 above with an activated SIM. However, the videos don't really do much to get you going. For those who don't know how do do anything with JSON, the following will help:

We've done some other pretty slick things. We got rid of the challenging "malmanager" and "mald" functions and built our own "QMI" abstraction "C" API. We've got MQTT and TLS running with complete connectivity to AWS, among other things. From a functionality perspective, there are two scripts that are executed on startup that are not documented. (custapp-postinit.sh is highlighted in the video) Look at "/etc/rc5.d/S25host-mode-preinit.sh" and "/etc/rc5.d/S100host-mode-postinit.sh". These point to a script in /CUSTAPP called custapp-preinit.sh and custapp-postinit.sh. My board did not have a custapp-preinit.sh so I created it. From there you can kill malmanager to do your own thing. The custapp-postinit.sh allows you to execute your own code.